Twenty years in the future, an orphan boy tries to find his place in a world permanently altered by COVID-19 The boy dragged his metal wagon down the crumbled pavement. Thump, thump, thump. The cart wobbled every time it hit a piece of loose asphalt. Each package in it was wrapped securely in plastic to […]
November 2021
A Divided World
Colored pencil Sabrina Lu, 12Ashburn, VA
The Day the Sky was Orange
When will our world go back to normal?” the narrator wondered, as smoke blanketed the California sky during the pandemic I knew something was wrong when I saw bright orange light peeking through the cracks in my blinds. Quietly, I slipped out of bed and opened one shutter. What I saw was appalling: a yucky […]
